Hi,
I’m using the new bulk import feature in the ARW. Accidentally, I used “KF” instead of “Kottenforst” as location ID but apparently it should be possible to update the location ID in the bulk import now. Where can I do that?
THE UI looks like this for me:
Hi Jason,
thanks for changing the locationID for me!
The screen that I see is still the one in my screenshot of my initial post. It doesn’t look like the screen that you are seeing.
I’m using firefox as my browser btw.
Also, I was checking other bulk imports of other users (I have admin rights) and the bulk import log page looks exactly like the one of my latest bulk import (see screenshot).
When you were submitting, did the user interface look like the old one or like the one I posted above? I think your screenshot is from the end of that process.
After you upload your spreadsheet, you should see a review page that lets you edit any fields that looks like @jason’s screencap above. If that doesn’t look familiar, is it possible you accessed the bulk import workflow from your bookmarks instead of the Submit > Bulk Import menu?
sorry for the misunderstanding from my side! The bulk import process did not look like the one from @jason 's screenshot but I do not have any screenshos from the process. It was my first bulk import after ~ 2 months.
I just started a new bulk import. This time, the interface looks like in Jason’s screenshot. I can tell that the interface is different because with this bulk import, I get the warning message that the max. number of uploaded photos cannot exceed 200. However, I have submitted 285 encounters in my initial bulk import
For us fire salamander researchers, it is not unusual to upload more than 200 encounters/photos in one go, so perhaps this is something to consider, i.e., increasing the max. number of uploadable photos in a bulk import
I would just run a new bulk import and delete the old one if that’s ok?
Perhaps, I just started the initial bulk import during the transition of the system to the new version?
No worries! From our side, the issues you described could only appear from the previous bulk import workflow so we were just trying to understand how you got there. ARW was updated the first week of August. I think the likely explanation was that your browser loaded a cached version of the bulk import submission page instead of the latest version.
Feel free to delete the previous import and try again.
Regarding the maximum number of uploaded encounters, that has always been the recommended guidance because bigger imports will increase wait times for detection and identification for all users of a Wildbook, not just the person uploading the import.
In the past, users have slowed down Wildbooks with imports containing thousands of encounters. This new version of bulk import is helping us enforce those limits to keep the site usable for everyone.
Alright, thank you!
I will delete the old bulk import and will inform you how the new bulk import is going.
Great, that we can import up to 400 encounters in one go!
The bulk import seems to be working!
I noticed two things, though:
1.) The same problem as:
Germany is not recognized as a country in the bulk import sheet.
2.) Encounters between midnight and 01:00 a.m. make problems as the “0” in the Encounter.hour column is not recognized. For encounters with Encounter.hour = 0, I get this error message in the check-up:
I could work-around it, by changing the cell in excel as text and then changing the value to “00” but it would of course be easier if “0” would be recognized by itself. Interestingly, “1”, “2”, “3” do not seem to make problems.
Thanks for following up! I’ve talked to the devs, who agree that the way you’re using 00 to represent midnight is accurate and we’re updating the help documentation to reflect that: https://github.com/WildMeOrg/wildbook-docs/pull/125
